video

«video» in Mova's school dictionary: Moving pictures with sound recorded and watched on a screen — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a video, videos); verb (video, videos, videoed, videoing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Moving pictures with sound recorded and watched on a screen. tree →

2) A recording of something: a video of the school play. tree →

3) Verb: to record something with a camera or phone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and online safety: watching videos; only watch videos an adult says are okay; don't post videos of yourself or others without permission; things in videos can be fake. In school: watch a science video, make a class video. Phrases: watch a video, make a video, video call, video game, music video, on video.

examples

• We watched a video about volcanoes. tree →
• Dad made a video of my first steps. tree →
• Ask permission before you film someone in a video. tree →
• I had a video call with my cousins in Ireland. tree →
• My brother plays video games. tree →
• Some videos online are not true. tree →
• Tell an adult if you see a video that upsets you. tree →
• Mum videoed the race. tree →

note

Countable: videos (no e). Verb past: videoed. Say «VID-ee-oh». Asking before filming or sharing videos of others is the polite and safe rule.

In the corpora

• Not everything you see is true: some stories and videos are made up or edited on purpose to fool people.
• A few seconds of video of two brothers walking together does not tell you whether they have made up.
• Then she told the world herself, in a video, that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy.
• «Kate's done a video.
• The internet also makes things that look real but are not: AI videos, fake screenshots, forum posts with no name.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «video» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.